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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: We break the weekend silence taking a look at what
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  Speaker 1: happened at the iconic venue, which is so great they're
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  Speaker 1: going to tear it down in a few years when
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs pull the new stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, that was the playground for the final game on
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  Speaker 1: the Sunday portion of the card. In week two is
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  Speaker 1: the NFL steamrolled through. the day and Daniel Jones leading
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  Speaker 1: the Colts wagon into Kansas City trying to turn things
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  Speaker 1: around did not go so well last week for the
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  Speaker 1: team from Indianapolis there as they got molly whopped by
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens hoping for better luck against the Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs I don't know if you're watching this game or
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  Speaker 1: not it was on NBC yeah Tirico and Collinsworth who
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  Speaker 1: had his knee pads on as always for Mahomes. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe you missed it. Maybe you did not have it
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  Speaker 1: on as Harrison Butker kicking a pair of field goals
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  Speaker 1: in bonus time, overtime. And that included a 40-yard field
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  Speaker 1: goal as time expired, giving Kansas City a three-point victory
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  Speaker 1: over the Colts.
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  Speaker 3: In the game that ended late into the night there.
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: So Patrick Mahomes finished the game with 382 yards passing
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  Speaker 1: and three touchdowns. More of a vintage performance by Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: as he got her done, filled up the stat sheet.
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker did not get in the end zone. He
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  Speaker 1: did have 117 more yards on the ground. And Travis Kelsey,
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  Speaker 1: a sighting of Travis Kelsey, had nine catches, 101.
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  Speaker 3: Yards, and a score.
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  Speaker 1: The Chiefs are now 2-0 Indianapolis. That's the better story,
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  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. They are now 0-2, 0-2 for
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  Speaker 1: the team from Indiana. So that is the jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Did Indianapolis prove? something by
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  Speaker 1: taking Kansas city at overtime. If you watch the NBC broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tirico at the end was making it seem like
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  Speaker 1: this was some kind of great accomplishment for the Colts.
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  Speaker 1: They had chances to win the game, losing in overtime.
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  Speaker 1: So did Indianapolis prove something by taking Kansas city to overtime?
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  Speaker 1: Or is that a consolation prize bull crap kind of
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  Speaker 1: statement to make?
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got bird's eye morning
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  Speaker 1: breath and courthouse. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together. And we're going to try not to get sidetracked.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to stay on course here. Let's not get sidetracked. So, A, Indy,
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  Speaker 1: you know what they get? They get an attaboy. They
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  Speaker 1: get the attaboy.
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  Speaker 4: Way to go.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't get blown out. You had a chance.
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  Speaker 1: You had multiple chances to win the game. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what you can do with that attaboy? You can
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  Speaker 1: wipe your tuchus with that attaboy. And then you can
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  Speaker 1: flush it down the toilet. The Colts defense. Starting 2026,
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  Speaker 1: these were two measuring stick games for Indianapolis, right? Two
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  Speaker 1: measuring stick games against Lamar Jackson and the Ravens and
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  Speaker 1: a rehabbing Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City. And what does
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  Speaker 1: the report card say for the Colts? They had two
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  Speaker 1: measuring stick games. That would be they get bupkis, squad douche,
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  Speaker 1: 0 for 2. They failed both tests. And talk about
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  Speaker 1: licking their wounds after surrender.
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  Speaker 3: A barf bag worthy.
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  Speaker 1: The Colts defense, first two games of the year, they're
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  Speaker 1: averaging allowing 514.5 yards per game and 37 points per game.
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  Speaker 1: The Colts defense allowing on average. And you wonder how
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  Speaker 1: many weeks will we hear about the communication issues, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get that all figured out, before they finally admit
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  Speaker 1: that the defense is is like a wrestler from back
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  Speaker 1: in the day.
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  Speaker 3: El Stinko is.
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  Speaker 1: The defense there in Indiana. Even Sauce Gardner, who they
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  Speaker 1: never throw the ball to, the other team, the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: did attempt to throw the ball his way a couple times.
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  Speaker 1: There was one play in particular, game-changing play, he failed
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  Speaker 1: to make. And now this tattered and broken defensive unit
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  Speaker 1: heads to Jerry's World for To face the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be next week.
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  Speaker 1: So, certainly looking the way the Colts are playing defense
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  Speaker 1: right now, that'll be an 0-3 start to the year
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  Speaker 1: for Indianapolis. Now, offensively, it's not all that much better. It's, well,
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  Speaker 1: the Colts scored enough points to win the game.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the problem, though.
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  Speaker 1: They're passing offense. They're trapped in that mushy middle of
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  Speaker 1: Captain Midd. Daniel Jones, even though the Colts scored some
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  Speaker 1: points in this game, Daniel Jones reminding Indy that they
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  Speaker 1: paid premium dollars there. They had to bring this guy back.
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  Speaker 1: God forbid you can go out and you– I don't
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  Speaker 1: know where you'd get a middle-of-the-pack quarterback in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Where can you find that?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, so Daniel Jones goes out there and reminds the
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  Speaker 1: front office of the Colts that they paid premium dollars
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  Speaker 1: for bird's-eye quarterback steamed veggies, and that's what they got.
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  Speaker 1: And so there you– You know, the steamed veggies thing,
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  Speaker 1: it's fine. Nobody orders seconds of steamed veggies. It's like one,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. I don't even want that. So Indianapolis has
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  Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback in the exact same way that IHOP
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  Speaker 1: has fine dining. And I give Daniel Jones credit because
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  Speaker 1: this guy hornswoggled those dummies in the Colts front office.
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  Speaker 1: He played all right for like four or five games
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  Speaker 1: early last year. He was starting to ride the vomit
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  Speaker 1: comet for the Colts. He got hurt before the vomit
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  Speaker 1: comet fully reached its cruising altitude.
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  Speaker 3: And then the Colts are like, well, we got to
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  Speaker 3: bring him back. So they brought him back.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah. Like we said, not a franchise quarterback. It's
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  Speaker 1: like going to IHOP and saying, well, that's fine dining. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: fine dining, I guess, but my God. Not exactly Picasso.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is the guy selling cheap prints outside of
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  Speaker 1: the art museum.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: And the ship be sinking in Indianapolis, and it does
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  Speaker 1: appear he is incapable of putting the team on his back.
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  Speaker 1: And granted, the defense is terrible for the Colts, but
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  Speaker 1: they're just not going anywhere interesting. It's another year without
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs there. For the Colts, and Jones, not the answer.
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  Speaker 1: He's just kind of what's.
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  Speaker 3: On hold when you hear that music in the background.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he is.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, meanwhile, to the Kansas City side of things,
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs win on the final play of the game,
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  Speaker 1: the Harrison-Butker field goal at the end. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: how is Big Red, Andy Reid, feeling about the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: at this point, his Chiefs?
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  Speaker 3: So Andy Reid is feeling. Minty fresh. Mint Lister. Ultra clean.
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  Speaker 3: He's just feeling extra fresh.
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  Speaker 1: These wins are washing away the foul, foul taste, the
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  Speaker 1: bad taste that they had last season.
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  Speaker 3: The Chiefs are not fully polished yet. They're not.
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  Speaker 1: However, the championship cologne, they found it in the back
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  Speaker 1: of the locker room, and they've now taken that bottle
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  Speaker 1: of championship cologne out again. Mahomes knocking off another layer
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  Speaker 1: of rust.
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  Speaker 3: And he did confirm.
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  Speaker 1: I got some crap from these fanboys, these Chiefs fanboys.
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  Speaker 1: Very upset that I criticized Mahomes. Mahomes admitted that I
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  Speaker 1: was right with my analysis. But let's never let the
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  Speaker 1: facts get in.
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  Speaker 3: The way of a fanboy.
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  Speaker 1: Because Mahomes knocking off some more rust in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And the factory machinery is officially warming up there. That
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  Speaker 1: was a more vintage performance. Even Travis Kelsey, who's looked
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  Speaker 1: washed up for two years... Apparently he located Ponce de
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  Speaker 1: Leon on the map, and he went from retirement watch material,
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  Speaker 1: at least for a night, right back to the security
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  Speaker 1: blanket of Mahome. And if you look at Kelsey, here's
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  Speaker 1: how incompetent Travis Kelsey's been the last few years.
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  Speaker 3: This is my fun fact here.
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  Speaker 1: So Kelsey now has 12 catches for 172 yards in
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  Speaker 1: two games. You say, okay, that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good start. Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that is over a percentage from all
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  Speaker 1: of last season?
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  Speaker 3: We're two games.
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  Speaker 1: In, and that is 172 yards is 20.2%, if my
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  Speaker 1: malware math is correct, of the production from last year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness. That's how pathetic he was last year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: add on, the add-on item, Kenneth Walker, nice of Seattle
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  Speaker 1: not to bring him back.
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  Speaker 3: Why would they need him?
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  Speaker 1: And they tossed Kenneth Walker into the kitchen, and that's
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  Speaker 1: another burner for Andy Reid that he.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't have before.
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  Speaker 1: Now, it is not perfect. I'm not going to sit
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  Speaker 1: here and just do a pep rally for the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Spagnuolo's defense that looked so good against the incompetent
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  Speaker 1: Broncos last week. Well, in this game against the Colts,
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  Speaker 1: there were stretches of this game. They had morning breath.
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  Speaker 1: They need some of that. Listerine, mint-flavored, ultra-clean. They need
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  Speaker 1: that because they had the morning breath there, letting Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: hang around until the final second of overtime. And they
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  Speaker 1: gave up 30 points in this game.
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  Speaker 3: Even though it wasn't much from the quarterback. That's not
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  Speaker 3: vintage Chiefs defense in this game.
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  Speaker 1: That's playing with your food and nearly choking on your food.
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  Speaker 3: Try to avoid that. So how does Andy Reid feel?
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  Speaker 1: Encouraged? Coaches are never satisfied, but you're encouraged. And the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs are not yet the finished product. They're a construction site.
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  Speaker 1: And there are many people optimistic that this thing will
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  Speaker 1: get done. You can see the luxury penthouse taking shape
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  Speaker 1: like it used to be there for Mahomes and friends
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  Speaker 1: there in Kansas City. And they play the Dolphins next week,
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  Speaker 1: which is like having a bye when you play the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 3: That's a bye. All right, last word. To the Beltway,
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  Speaker 3: major injury update.
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  Speaker 1: Tests confirming that quarterback Jaden Daniels has had a nice
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  Speaker 1: big bowl of snap, crackle, pop.
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  Speaker 3: He suffers a dislocated elbow. Oh, my elbow!
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  Speaker 1: 37-20 loss to Dallas in a game that was close,
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  Speaker 1: in a game that you spend your time handicapping, and
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  Speaker 1: then the quarterback gets hurt before halftime, and then that's it.
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  Speaker 1: X-rays showed, according to Dan Quinn, who will be a
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator somewhere next year. He will not be the
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Commanders. He's toast. This team's going to
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  Speaker 1: finish near the bottom in the NFC. Anyway, Dan Quinn,
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  Speaker 1: x-ray showed no fracture. According to the coach of a
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  Speaker 1: team formerly called the Redskins, Daniels will undergo additional testing
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  Speaker 1: when the sun rises later on on Monday to determine
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  Speaker 1: whether or not there is a significant ligament damage and
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  Speaker 1: surgery is still likely a possibility.
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  Speaker 3: So he's going to be out for a while if
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  Speaker 3: he plays again this year.
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  Speaker 1: The question, Commander's quarterback, Jaden Daniels, has a dislocated left
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  Speaker 1: elbow yet again. Why does this keep happening to Jaden Daniels?
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  Speaker 3: All right. So Daniels, listen, when he plays, he is spectacular, right?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Where have we seen this before? We've seen this
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  Speaker 1: movie before. When he's out there and when he plays it,
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  Speaker 1: he's great. The health thing is the devil, and he
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  Speaker 1: can't say healthy.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, he went down to the courthouse at this point.
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  Speaker 1: We've determined that Jaden Daniels, he went down to the courthouse,
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  Speaker 1: and Wen Healthy has become part of his legal name.
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  Speaker 3: He's now got four names.
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  Speaker 1: It's Jaden, Wen is one of the middle names, Healthy,
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  Speaker 1: the second middle name, and then the last name is Daniels.
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  Speaker 1: So that's his full name. His now legal name in
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  Speaker 1: the courthouse is Jaden, when healthy, Daniels. He plays quarterback
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  Speaker 1: like the human body comes with unlimited replacement parts. Wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: that be great? Wouldn't that be awesome? We just had
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  Speaker 1: unlimited replacement parts. Oh, man, I just, I got a headache.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll give you a new head. All right,
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  Speaker 1: no problem.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds good. My knees, my right knee is kind of
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  Speaker 3: hurting a little bit. Okay, we got another knee. What side?
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  Speaker 3: You want a bigger knee? We'll give you a bigger, no,
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  Speaker 3: you want a smaller. Okay, we'll give you a smaller knee.
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  Speaker 1: No problem.
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  Speaker 3: Be great.
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  Speaker 1: Right? Just why not? At some point, unlucky becomes a pattern.
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  Speaker 1: People say, oh, he's unlucky and all that. Daniels is
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  Speaker 1: collecting injuries. Like frequent travelers collect the miles, you know,
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  Speaker 1: those air miles when you're traveling around. People that travel
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  Speaker 1: for work, they're like, yeah, I get some of those miles.
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  Speaker 1: Watching Jaden Daniels run when he's in the game, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a Commander's fan. I was flipping around all
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  Speaker 1: the games, but watching Daniels in particular, when Washington plays
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  Speaker 1: an island game, because we love our island games, Daniel's
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  Speaker 1: watching him run. It's like watching a toddler carry your
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  Speaker 1: expensive laptop, and then he's holding up a thing of
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  Speaker 1: water on top of the laptop.
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  Speaker 3: Now, technically, everything is fine. Everything is fine, technically.
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  Speaker 1: But you're already preparing for an absolute disaster.
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  Speaker 3: So forget about.
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  Speaker 1: QB1 for Jaden Daniels. Washington needs EMT1.
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  Speaker 3: Standing right next to him.
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  Speaker 1: Now, some are saying full conspiracy that this is all
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  Speaker 1: tied to Jaden Daniels and what happened at LSU and
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  Speaker 1: it was all tied together.
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  Speaker 3: I don't buy that.
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  Speaker 1: That mumbo jumbo, because whether Jaden Daniels tried to bully
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  Speaker 1: LSU or not, by the way, nice job by Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin losing to Ole Miss over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: How embarrassing was that? Anyway, Daniels, my God.
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  Speaker 1: He would have got hurt whether he had threatened some
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  Speaker 1: kind of action against LSU or not. And he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need another standard off-season strength and conditioning program based on
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  Speaker 1: a minutes-long review of Jaden Daniels. He needs a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of bubble wrap, some rhino skin, and an extended warranty. Hell,
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  Speaker 1: at this point, I don't know if you can get this.
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  Speaker 1: I think you can get anything you want on the Internet.
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  Speaker 3: But you should just.
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  Speaker 1: Find a way to buy some armadillo plating for Jaden Daniels.
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  Speaker 3: See if you can get that. And a roll cage.
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  Speaker 3: That would be well.
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  Speaker 1: If you can get him armadillo plating, some rhino skin,
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  Speaker 1: and a roll cage, then he'll be the quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: Washington for the.
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  Speaker 3: Next 10 years.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get him those things. He'll be doing a
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  Speaker 1: cheesy jock podcast somewhere. That's what these guys do, right?
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  Speaker 1: These ex-jocks, the ex-ball players, they get hurt.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do a podcast. That's what I'll do because everyone
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  Speaker 3: loves audio content. I've been saying it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it when I was a kid, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: an adult. I've worked in the audio business my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: People love audio content. All these athletes, they want to
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  Speaker 1: do the audio content thing.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to Football Doesn't Lie.
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  Speaker 6: Hi, I'm Bill Parcells.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm Catherine Zazzora.
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  Speaker 6: I have a lot of experience in the game of football, Catherine.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
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  Speaker 5: we're going to talk about the NFL slate through the
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  Speaker 5: lens of Bill's expertise as he coaches me from novice
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  Speaker 5: fan to football expert over the course of the season.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I'm looking forward to this show, Catherine, and
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  Speaker 6: hopefully we can give our audience a little in-depth look
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  Speaker 6: into the inner sanctum of pro football that they can't
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  Speaker 6: get anywhere else.
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  Speaker 5: Tune in every Thursday for unfiltered stories from Coach Parcells,
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  Speaker 5: analysis on the state of the modern game, and education
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  Speaker 5: on how football really works.
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  Speaker 7: Continuity is very important but what happens when you get
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  Speaker 7: good coaches on your staff and people begin to recognize
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  Speaker 7: them then they want to hire them and then you
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  Speaker 7: can't stop a guy from trying to improve himself but
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  Speaker 7: you have to replace.
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  Speaker 5: Them Because once you understand what's going on inside the
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  Speaker 5: mind of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
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  Speaker 6: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
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  Speaker 6: haven't done, because I didn't have enough money, I don't
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  Speaker 6: own the team. I never owned a team.
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  Speaker 5: or wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: All closed.
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  Speaker 4: All closed.
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  Speaker 1: Week two, chapter two of the NFL schedule. John Harbaugh
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  Speaker 1: and the upstart Giants.
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  Speaker 3: They won an island.
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  Speaker 1: Game over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night football. The
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  Speaker 1: Giants are back. The Giants are back. And so they
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  Speaker 1: headed out. They're bandwagoning out to SoCal. A little play
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  Speaker 1: date with the bedraggled rams of Sean McVay, America's favorite
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  Speaker 1: travel agent, Sean McVay. And the rams fresh off being
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  Speaker 1: cooked like a shrimp on the barbie. Right there by
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  Speaker 1: the Niners. And so this was their first chance. You
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  Speaker 1: had Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, who's in a contract
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  Speaker 1: kerfuffle with ESPN. They were calling the game. Buck got paid.
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  Speaker 1: Aikman didn't. That's not awkward at all, is it? So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the game or not.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you missed it. You were staring at a wall
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  Speaker 1: or maybe spending time with people that actually matter. in
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the world rather than these professional athletes, but don't worry.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: We have no life. We watch. So you would not
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: have to. And Matthew Stafford rising from the ashes, like
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the Phoenix as he threw for 327 yards and not one,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: not two, not three, but four touchdowns. And the Rams
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: turned the giants into burgers, delicious smash burgers and, 28-6,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the final at SoFi Stadium there. Rams improve to 1-1.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: They rebound from choking on the Vegemite down under. Ram
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: offense without their top player didn't matter. Devontae Adams cooking
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: with gas in this game. Devontae Adams had eight catches
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: for 195 yards and not one but two touchdowns, like
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers version of Devontae Adams from years
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: gone by. And he had a touchdown. One touchdown was
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: for 31 yards, another for 11. But the better story
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. That's the better story.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: Woo-wee.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: That is where the drama lies. So if you had
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart taking off to the moon, Jackson Dart injured, snap, crackle, pop,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: as he gets knocked out in his left knee in
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the first quarter. It was seven plays into the game
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: for New York. The seventh offensive play for the New
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: York football team that plays in New Jersey took a
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: major hit. The old sandwich. And you were the middle
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: of the Oreo sandwich there. You had Byron Young and
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Josiah Stewart, whoever they are.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I know who Byron Young is. I don't know who
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: the other guy is. But anyway, Jackson Dart did not return.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: He watched.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: The second half wearing a. If you remember HBO back
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: in the day, they had a show called The Sopranos,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and he had a Sopranos-style tracksuit on. Jackson Dart standing
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and watching the game. Now, state-funded NFL media, the Pravda
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: News Service of the National Football League, reporting that Dart
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: suffered a sprained MCL. There will be more tests later
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. The Giants on the Big Bird heading back
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to the East Coast, so they'll land just in time
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: to get into nice rush-hour traffic there. in the new
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: york tri-state area i'm sure that'll be wonderful so jackson
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: dart though out mcl that has up staged everything else
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: that is the story here that we're going to talk
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: about so that is a good jumping off point let
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: us discuss the question how much does the giants outlook
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: change how much does the giants outlook change if jackson
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: dart is going to miss a month or more for
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the team that calls themselves giants so i've got morton's
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: steakhouse the national bird of india and irish spring and
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: are going.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: To be in.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Vogue on the catwalk is because jackson dart he's a
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: catwalk guy right he's a fashion guy of fashion show
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: up on the catwalk. They get mocked for being on
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the catwalk. Anyway, so let's begin with this. To answer
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the question, how much does the Giants' outlook change if
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart misses extended time? It obviously changes everything. Not
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: that Jackson Dart is the second coming of a good quarterback,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: because that is to be determined. However, New York, for
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: better or worse, built this entire thing on offense around
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the dartboard. And you take the dartboard away, what do
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you got? Now they're playing darts blindfolded is what they're
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: doing here. This sophomore season, supposed to be for Jackson Dart,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: his football bar mitzvah. The coming of age story, right?
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: And instead, the cake got served with a nice MCL sprain.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: A side of MCL sprain for Jackson Dart. So New
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: York went from wondering for a little bit how good
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: How good can Jackson Dart become? to now counting how
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: many weeks he's going to be out before he returns
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to the fold. And when you look at the Giants,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the Fisher-Price building block set, Jackson Dart was the star attraction.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: He was on the box to buy the toy because
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: of the thing on the box, and he was on
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the box there. And so it's like the Jenga piece
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: that you take out of the Jenga tower there, and
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: then you just yell, Timber!
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: And then it all comes crashing down. I like that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: The main reason why is because of Jameis Winston, who
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: we like. We didn't like what we saw. We liked
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Jameis Winston. What has happened? Where have you gone, Jameis Winston?
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: He was out there playing most of the game, and
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: he looked like a guy that had been doing cheese
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: puff commercials on TV. Remember the opening game between the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Giants and the Yankees? And Jameis was doing cheesy clown
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: television stuff. And then at the World Cup, he was
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: doing more cheesy TV stuff. He played like a guy
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: who had spent a lot of time worried about doing
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: bad television. And he ended up playing bad quarterback. And
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: that's that's that. The Giants, though, you look at this. Winston,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: he he makes bad throws. He'd always say, well, OK,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: he's going to give you three or four really bad throws.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: And then he's going to give you a couple of
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: amazing touchdown plays. He didn't give you the amazing plays.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: He gave you the crappy throws. He didn't give you
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the good stuff. So the Giants without Jackson Dart. It's
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: like going to Morton's Steakhouse, and it's like they have
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: a sign-up. Listen, we're open for business. We don't have
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: any steak. But you're Morton's Steakhouse. How do you not
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: have steak? Well, we've got the other stuff. All right,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: so congratulations. Enjoy your baked potato. Enjoy your baked potato.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Enjoy that here. So as for the return, as you know,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I am not medically trained. I am just an overnight
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: gas bag. However, I did a while back stay at
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: a Holiday Inn Express and playing Dr. Maller. Spitballing here,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: we're going to say that Jackson Dart has between a
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: grade one and a grade two MCL sprain. What does
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: that mean? That means that the smart money says Jackson
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Dart will be out anywhere from two. to six weeks.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: That would be a month and a half on the
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: long end of that. So that's where I am on
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart. Of course, he could be like Caleb Williams
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: and just all of a sudden bounce back and play
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: next week. That's a possibility. Meanwhile, keeping the beat going here.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: The question now is, can we do a wellness check
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: on Coach John Harbaugh, the Giants' Coach John Harbaugh? Can
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: we do a wellness check on John Harbaugh at this point?
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: So if you look at where we were and where
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: we are now, and you know this, everybody spent one
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: week congratulating Jim Harbaugh for fixing the New York Giants.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And that narrative... that it just took one week, and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: he's a grown-up in the room, and you heard all
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: that wonderful stuff.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Even Mr.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Buck there on TV was licking the boots of John Harbaugh.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And so they beat the Cowboys week one, and everything's good.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: That's what you do.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: You hire a great coach. We were impressed with the
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Giants in week one. They made some mistakes, but overall.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: That narrative, though, has aged like a can or a
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: container there of Hellman's mail that you've left out at
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the July picnic event. since 8 in the morning, and
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: it's now 4.30 in the afternoon, and that mayo has
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: just been sitting out there. There's flies all over it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: It's disgusting. It smells. It's turning yellow.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: It's god-awful.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: So Harbaugh thought he had inherited a upstart quarterback in
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Jackson Darden, and instead it looks like at this point
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: he inherited the medical chart. and the insurance deductible for
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart at this particular point here. So, wow. You
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: juxtapose the Giant fan base. Again, week one, beat the Cowboys. Oh, man,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: we're back, baby.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: And I heard from you, wackadoodles. I heard from you.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess your phones all went to airplane mode
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: when that game turned sideways because before the game, I
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: was getting texted, be prepared, Maller.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Your Rams are done. It's the Giants are back, baby.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: All that crap.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Again, airplane mode. Game went sideways, airplane mode. Not the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: first time it's happened. It's called being a frontrunner, which
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: is hard to do when your team sucks to be
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a frontrunner.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: It's not easy to be a frontrunner when your team sucks.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: But the Giant fans went from all giddy beating the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Cowboys and dreaming of January playoff games and all that stuff.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And then by the end of week two.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: They're now Googling.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Medial collateral ligament recovery timeline. all right so new york's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: master plan is now what jamis winston get some duct
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: tape some elmer's glue and positive affirmations is that the
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: plan oh yeah and john and john harbaugh god love
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: john harbaugh at this point john harbaugh must be daydreaming
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: about the national bird of india The Peacock. He must
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: be thinking, you know, my buddy Mike Tomlin, he could
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: have gotten one of these jobs. And Tomlin said, no,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take a gap year. I'm going to
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: go hang out with the Peacock over there at NBC,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to give lukewarm takes on Sunday night football,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and that's that.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: And then John Harbaugh said, no, no, I'm.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Going to jump right back in the deep fryer, take
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a bad job, the Giants job, a bad job. And
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: he took the bad job. He said, I want the
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: bad job. Give me the bad job.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: He got the bad job. And, okay.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: And the deep fryer, he's right back in the deep fryer,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and it turns out that he discovered the grease was
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: left on. He did a belly whopper in there. So,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the good news, I will be Benny Brightside to a point.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: It does not look good at this point for the Giants.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: The Rams are much better than them, and we knew
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that going in. They just played poorly. Typically, teams don't
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: have two bad games in a row. If that happens,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: they don't have a good coach, etc.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: etc.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: etc.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: However, You look at.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: The Giants' upcoming schedule, and it's the Paris baguette schedule, okay?
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: It's extra soft. However, without Jackson Dart and the way
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: that Jameis Winston played, the Giants have no teeth. So
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: it's a problem. But you have four literal cupcakes lined
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: up in a row for the Giants. You got Cupcake City, baby.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: For the Giants here, teams like the Titans and the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Commanders and teams like that. and somehow they are the
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: team missing the frosting. which does not seem like a
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: good situation. All right, last word here to the winner's
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: locker room. And I know it's a tough day for
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the Trolls. It'll be okay. The Rams will lose some
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: more games. You'll have a chance to call up again,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you cowards. But the Rams get the win. The obvious question,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: did Sean McVay use the voodoo boogaloo to solve the Rams' issues?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: So I would pump the brakes on that. It's odd
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: to say the Rams won the game in a route
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: or route, depending on how you were taught in elementary school.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: It still doesn't feel all the way back. So I
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: am pumping the brakes and cooling the jets. I think
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: those are the colloquial terms for the Rams here. Without
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart, this game became an exhibition game.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: It did.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: It was a make-a-wish situation. Jameis Winston, again, played like
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: a guy doing cheesy TV and like he kind of
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: semi-retired from the NFL. I hope that's just a one-game situation.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: We like Jameis. But, man, was that disheartening. There were
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: plays to be made, and he didn't make them. And
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it was like he was playing blindfolded, which he often does.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: But occasionally he'll connect on those passes, and he's a
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: fun zone player.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: He's a one-man band. He wasn't any of that.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: So you look at it, with Jackson Dart out, Jameis
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Winston in, the Rams needed a get-well game. And the
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: moment Jackson Dart hobbled off the field, the Giants then
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: showed up. And you saw one of the guys had
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: some flowers. He was carrying some flowers. And there were
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: some balloons in the back. And then there was a
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: fruit basket. and a box of chocolates. So they really,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: really did a nice job there. The Giants, very welcoming.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: The box of chocolates, the truffles, was really, really sweet.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: So despite missing their top two players, Pukunuku, the top
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: offensive player, and Myles Garrett, who was hanging out with
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Mookie Betts. Yes, the Rams traded for Myles Garrett to
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: hang out with Mookie Betts. Boy, there were some real
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: celebrity a-holes at that game, by the way. Did you
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: see the shot there in the luxury box? You had McAfee,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: Who else?
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: There was a couple other people. I was like, oh, man.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: This is like, hey, I'm better than you, central a-hole
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: squad right there. It's like, well, a bunch of a-holes.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Put them all in the box. Who's in the box?
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: The a-holes.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Anyway, so the Rams without Myles Garrett and Puka Nakua,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: they end up winning fine. It's kind of the equivalent
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: of an open book test with Jackson Dart out. And
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald made his much-ballyhooed return. And much like Myles
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Garrett the week prior, you were left at the end
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: of the game saying, where's Waldo? He did a where's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Waldo thing. He was out there. And he was a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: drag for the most part. No impactful plays, really, from
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. You wouldn't know that from the TV broadcast.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: And it was like the king returning to the kingdom
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and all that. Matthew Stafford had an ugly interception. Ram
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: running backs fumbling a couple of times.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Nevertheless, when you put all the.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Numbers together, this was an Irish spring victory. The Rams
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: were rolling around in kangaroo poo-poo in Australia. And they
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: showered off, and they suddenly smelled pretty good. The sweet
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: smell of victory.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: It smelled wonderful.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: So, yes, Sean McVay cleaned up a lot of the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: grotesque stuff at the crime scene.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: But....
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: There's still some fixables there to work on. Those little
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: things that are repairable. And you don't get a lot
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: of credit for winning a game you were favored to
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: win when the quarterback went out. The backup looked like
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: he hadn't played football in a year. And you played
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: a ham and egger at quarterback. So, yeah, one comfortable win, obviously,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: does not erase the problems the Rams had in Australia.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: It merely gives everyone permission to to stop screaming and
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: shouting and pounding the table for a few days until
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the Rams play the Denver Broncos. It's going to be
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: a tough week for Koopaloop there.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: We have a game, so let's welcome our contestants right now.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: That way Koop won't bitch and complain.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: We didn't have enough time for the game. You sabotaged
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: the game.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: All right, so let's welcome in our contestants. We have Joey,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: who's in Houston. Hello, Joey.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Welcome.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: You're going to play Maller's Mountain of Money. Hello, Joey.
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: Going on, Mr.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Maller.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Talking into a microphone in a dark studio, and I
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: feel terrible because I just hung up on can't close.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: The deal, Neil.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: And what brings you to the show here, Joey? What
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: are you doing up at this hour? I work at
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: a plant where we make steam and electricity, so it
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: runs 24-7. All right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And so you're around a lot of machinery and things,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I would imagine.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: I'm on my way home.
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: So that's the best part.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Good shift at work there. You're doing it right now. What?
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to know the people, Coop. I'm trying
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: to learn about the people. All right.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I guess I can't learn about your.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Life, Joey.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Coop's yelling at me.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with, Joey? You
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: got me, Ben, Coop, or if you really want a
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: good time, Lorena.
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, since you got to know me, I'm going
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: to go with you, Mr.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: We're in it, man.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: We're going to get this done, Joey. Hold on a sec.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: And we have Brandon in Kansas city.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Hello, Brandon. Welcome.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: B-B-B-B-B-B-Baby and the Jets. Let's go.
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: 2-0, baby.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Red and gold until I'm dead and cold. Let's go.
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: Come on.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Until the casket drops. Now, I've actually met Brandon at
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the Kansas City meeting. I know you, so I don't
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: need to ask you 10 questions about your life. So
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: who would you like to.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Partner up with?
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Hey, give me Coop since he has me hanging on
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: hold all the time. All right, Coop is a tribute
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: to you. What are the categories here? Quickly, Coop, let's
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: get this game set up, and then we'll have it
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: on the other side.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: All right, this is the Joan Jett edition of Mallard's
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Mountain of Money. She turns 68 years old today.
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  Speaker 3: Happy birthday.
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  Speaker 4: The categories are You Don't Know What You've Got, Bad Reputation,
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  Speaker 4: I Love Rock and Roll, and Everyday People. Joey, you
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  Speaker 4: run first. Which category would you like?
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  Speaker 1: Everyday people.
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  Speaker 4: Everyday people. All right, Brandon, how about you?
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  Speaker 1: I love rock and roll. All right.
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  Speaker 4: All right, guys, hold on a sec.
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  Speaker 1: We will have Mallard's Mountain of Money in its entirety.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that, and we will do it next.
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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  Speaker 2: Mallard's Mountain of Money.
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  Speaker 4: I love that's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our friend Joey from Houston. He makes electricity.
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  Speaker 1: And he's off now.
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  Speaker 4: And steam.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he uses steam and all that. Joey's going to
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  Speaker 1: partner up with me, Brandon, in Kansas City. Chiefs fan
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  Speaker 1: till the casket drops. He's teamed up with Coop. And, Joey,
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  Speaker 1: you were up first. You picked everyday people. Would that
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  Speaker 1: be correct? Yes, sir. All right. We need the first
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  Speaker 1: and last name of these random athletes. And here we go.
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  Speaker 1: 45 seconds on the clock.
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  Speaker 3: We're on our way. Go basketball player known as the mailman.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. The pitcher for the Mariners also pitch for the
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  Speaker 1: Astros known as the big unit.
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  Speaker 6: Randy Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback for Texas, who led them to a championship, won
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  Speaker 1: the Heisman, then flopped.
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  Speaker 3: Vince Young.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Running back from Ohio State, played for the Tennessee Titans.
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  Speaker 1: Eddie George. Yes. Nicknamed the Snake for the Arizona Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: Jake Plummer. Good job. Basketball player for the Mavericks. He
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  Speaker 1: played for the Pistons. The Utah Jazz traded for Adrian
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  Speaker 1: Dantley back in the day. Oh, I said his name.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job by me. Former mayor of Detroit. He played
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  Speaker 1: for the Pistons. He's still alive. He's played for the
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  Speaker 1: Pistons back in the 60s.
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  Speaker 2: 160 points.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Do you lose points for saying the name?
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't. Thanks for trying to be a schmuck. No,
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  Speaker 1: you don't. 160 points. I was trying to say, I
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  Speaker 1: think Mark Aguirre. I said Adrian Dantley, who we were
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  Speaker 1: looking for. So obviously that didn't count. And Dave Bing
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  Speaker 1: was the guy that was the mayor of Detroit.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Brandon, we have I Love Rock and Roll. These
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  Speaker 4: athletes all love rock and roll. Don't choke. 45 seconds
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  Speaker 4: on the clock. Are you ready, Brandon?
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  Speaker 3: Don't choke.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's begin. The Splash Brother, currently the star
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  Speaker 4: of The Warriors.
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  Speaker 2: Seth Curry.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Taylor Swift's husband.
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  Speaker 1: John Kelsey.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: The best catcher of all time for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: And the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Piazza.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. The best skateboarder of all time.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: This guy is one of the best closers of all time.
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  Speaker 4: Long time San Diego Padre. All right. We'll skip it.
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  Speaker 4: Former linebacker for USC, I think. He was the coach
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  Speaker 4: of the Jaguars. Yes. This guy was an offensive lineman
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  Speaker 4: for the Saints.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: 180.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so it's a 20-point game. It's anyone's game.
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  Speaker 1: What'd he say?
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  Speaker 4: What'd you say?
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  Speaker 1: Did you say what I think you said? I'm just joking, Ben. Relax, relax, Ben.
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  Speaker 1: I'm joking. Banter, banter, banter.
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  Speaker 4: Please make it appropriate, banter.
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  Speaker 3: That sounded like.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I dumped it because that's exactly what it sounded like.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's a demerit for Coop. We'll take off 20 points. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: 30 points.
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  Speaker 3: No, stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what to do. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Our throw-to-break time is going to be off.
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  Speaker 1: Joey, we have... What do we got? You don't... What
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  Speaker 1: do we got? Bad reputation and you don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you've got. Bad reputation. All right. These sports figures all
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  Speaker 1: had a bad reputation.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: All right. We're 45 seconds on the clock. And away
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  Speaker 1: we go. All right. Quarterback for the Cleveland Browns right now.
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  Speaker 1: Played for the Texans.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny Mintz.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the Browns.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Great UFC star. He fought a fight against
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  Speaker 1: Money Mayweather.
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  Speaker 3: A few years ago. Manny Pacquiao?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: Irish guy.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Conor McGregor.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. A wide receiver for the Steelers. He went nutso
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  Speaker 1: at the end of his career with Tampa Bay. Did
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  Speaker 1: jumping jacks off the field at the end of his career.
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  Speaker 1: Infielder for the Tampa Bay Rays. He was arrested for
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  Speaker 1: snooping a minor in the Dominican. Lost his $ 100 million
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  Speaker 1: contract with Tampa Bay. Coach of Penn State. Coach of
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  Speaker 1: Penn State.
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  Speaker 3: He jumped.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 5: 190.
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  Speaker 1: 190.
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  Speaker 4: You missed Joe Paterno, Wander Franco. What else did he miss?
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  Speaker 4: Antonio Brown.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Brandon, you don't know what you've got. These athletes
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  Speaker 4: were all traded before they reached superstardom. 45 seconds on
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  Speaker 4: the clock. Let's begin. This guy was drafted by the Suns,
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  Speaker 4: was traded to the Mavericks, then became a multi-time MVP
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  Speaker 4: with the Suns again. Long hair, point guard, white guy.
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  Speaker 1: No. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 4: He's not going to get it done. We won the game, Joey.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: We won the game.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: A point guard. Koop chokes. Koop chokes.